#lila cerullo ����

[gojuo]

GAIA GIRACE and IRENE MAIORINO as Raffaella Cerullo in MY BRILLIANT FRIEND — 4.01 “The Separation”

[deerest-deer]

what if i started crying and never stopped??

[ffantasmi]

LILA AND LENÙ My Brilliant Friend, chapter 27 "Compromises"

[erosdoceamargo]

raffaella cerullo & elena greco | the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / hbo l'amica geniale / nbc hannibal's script / letters to milena, by kafka / the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / wuthering heights, by emily bronte / anna akhmatova tr. by judith hemschemeyer, “poem without a hero” / l'amica geniale / twin flame, by weyes blood / my brilliant friend, by elena ferrante

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L'AMICA GENIALE — ELENA FERRANTE ↳ a special poster for the wonderful and brilliant jo ( @dylanlila ) <33

[susansontag]

it's incredibly transparent that mainstream reviewers of the neapolitan novels (my brilliant friend series by elena ferrante) explain the divide between lila and elena in terms of elena having discipline, yet lila was somehow just too unfocused, pessimistic, or chaotic to be able to achieve her goals. some of them cast lila as a villain that needs to be contained by elena in writing; both a cruel misreading of lila's character but also one that tries to make elena complicit in seeing her friend as the antagonist of their story, something I don't for a second believe.

liberal press seriously can't handle, is unable, to admit, that lila cerullo didn't go on to become a famous writer or else lift herself up by her bootstraps because her family didn't care and couldn't afford her education, so she was forced to stop after elementary school? her father throws her out of a window when she complains. the point wasn't that she wasn't crafty enough, it's that you can be crafty and brilliant and if the opportunities aren't available to you it doesn't matter. lila potentially could have become the big boss of her neighbourhood if she'd seriously wanted to, but she wasn't interested in gaining power by such illegitimate means, she wanted to be better.

elena was dedicated and worked incredibly hard, much harder than those who were more fortunate had to, certainly. but she was also lucky. various things converged for her in such a way that she was able to leave the poverty of her childhood and create a different life for herself, and this wasn't because she was somehow better or more capable than lila, or because lila had deficiencies of character. to seriously read it as though that was the case, as though this was what ferrante was trying to tell us, is a reading so obviously false and cynical that it's bizarre these people wouldn't feel shameful publishing it. fuck the working class, they're mostly just lazy and incapable, right? oh but elena's alright, she has nice manners.

[lasmarginatura]

elena ferrante, my brilliant friend // la_melancolia

[thclonelyisland]

4x09 - the disappearance

[epifaniacintilante]

My Brilliant Friend // 4.09 - The Disappearance

[lilacerull0]

Raffaella Cerullo + Transition state theory

"She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way." - Elena Ferrante

largely inspired by this post by my beloved @elenagrec and this discussion i've had with @prismelit

[theannotatedbook]

[deerest-deer]

lila this episode truly most beautiful woman i've ever seen <3

pics from @/_neardeath on twitter, genuinely sooo thankful for their screencaps!!!

[ffantasmi]

But at the end, I'm lucky we were together

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND STORY OF THE LOST CHILD dir. Laura Bispuri

[printempsdessens]

The Story of the Lost Child Chapter 27: Compromises

[maxdibert]

Sometimes a family is you, your childhood friend with whom you maintain a toxic, sapphic-tinged codependency, her partner who used to throw rocks at you as kids but turned out to be the only decent man you’ve known in your lives, the good-for-nothing son from your friend’s first marriage, your daughters from your first marriage to the man you cheated on with the father of your third daughter, and the youngest daughter of your friend and her life companion. Welcome to The End of the Nuclear Family with Lenù Greco and Lila Cerullo by Elena Ferrante.

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It’s how Lenù can’t differentiate between the things she does for herself and the things she does for others, it’s in the ways she tries so hard to speak about/have the opinions she thinks people want her to, it’s about how she constantly strives to be better or smarter but doesn’t feel that she’s there even when people are praising her or she’s getting degrees/awards, it’s that moment where Nino who she always thought was above her reveals that he threw out the article she wrote as a child because it was better than anything he could write, it’s how she gets scared when she thinks Lila is writing a book because she assumes it’ll be better than all those thousands of pages she put out into the world and that moment she let others make her believe her first novel was bad (the novel where she included the story of her assault/rape by an older man) — it’s her self doubt, insecurity, dilettantism, dependence, pain, depression, soaring ego and then crushing self-loathing

love her sm